Jonathan Slonim

Small manufacturing PE. Sometimes CFO. Creating value for LPs and employees. I'm married to an economist and I love history so my tweets sometimes get strange.

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@RobertMSterling Moral agency is what makes us human. A death penalty acknowledges that a criminal is a human. It is better to be treated as a human and die for it, than to be treated as an animal and live.

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Kind of a quick zero-to-100

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So far today I've learned how to download python, and now I'm trying to make bots that will rule the world.

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@SeanODowd15 @BigJohn043 Profit sharing bonus is usually successful if it’s implemented on an upswing. Employees learn to care about company performance because they see how it affects their paycheck.

I have no idea how an ESOP is supposed to work

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@Eli_Albrecht This story is as American as it gets.

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@Eli_Albrecht So very true.

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@Will_Schryver PE frequently fails to integrate, because they don't know enough about day-to-day operations to realize the importance.

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Today I learned that in 3rd grade an opinion is a "feeling you have about something you like or dislike."

Feelings and thoughts/ideas are not the same thing. Opinions are thoughts.

I feel very strongly about this. ;)

For the record I generally like my 3rd grader's teacher.

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@STLChrisH OSHA meets appropriately relaxed parenting. Which wins?

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@LeahLibresco @kdemontfort Our girls watched the sound of music until they were sick of it. which is too bad because it's one of my favorite movies.

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@iAnonPatriot If you have this much energy after a day of skiing, you didn't ski long enough.

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Has anyone booked a flight to CVG when they intended to go to CDG?

This seems like an error that must have occurred more than zero times, sort of like the time I showed up for my flight at LGA only to discover that I was flying out of JFK that day.

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@bradleybirzer I met him in line at the airport once! The guy is wrong about so much but I love him.

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@Eli_Albrecht There’s that one time we had an army of big law divorce lawyers!

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@bryan_caplan I don’t think I’m an overachiever but my standards are Churchill, Washington, Carnegie, and @tylercowen

Mainly because my parents gave me a lot of books. They never pushed me to do anything specific but encouraged me when I found things I wanted to do.

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@Eli_Albrecht That might have been a John Grisham novel to be fair…

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@Eli_Albrecht I once heard “if I think about the client in the shower I bill an hour”

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Training Copilot to be my GL accountant right now. it's pretty cool. And it weirdly feels like talking to a real person about problems I'm having with a journal entry.

Next step: create an agent and share it with my team so they can do month end without me.

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@bryan_caplan Skewed distribution. Customer research surveys treat 9-10 as positive, 7-8 as neutral, and all else as negative (net promotor score).

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@SecretCFO since "agnostic" just means "without knowledge," I think this is a more telling description than most realize.